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1 Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
2 Now a certain man being lame from the womb of his mother was being carried, whom every day they placed at the gate called Beautiful of the temple, so he could ask for a gift of money from people who were going into the temple.
3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple, he asked them to give him a gift of money.
4 But Peter, looking intently at him, with John, said, “Look at us.”
5 So the lame man looked at them, expecting to receive something from them.
6 But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have, this I will give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”
7 Taking him by the right hand, Peter raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.
8 Then leaping up, the lame man stood and began to walk; and he entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.
9 All the people saw him walking and praising God.
10 They also recgonized him, that he was the man who had been asking people for a gift of money while sitting at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement because of what had happened to him.
11 As he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’ s, greatly marveling.
12 When Peter saw this, he answered the people, “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why do you look intently at us, as if we had made him to walk by our own power or godliness?
13 The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and rejected in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
14 But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a man who was a murderer to be released to you.
15 But you killed the Founder of life, whom God raised from the dead— and we are witnesses of this.
16 Now, by faith in his name, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. The name of Jesus and the faith that is through him gave to this man this complete health in the presence of all of you.
17 Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as also did your rulers.
18 But the things which God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he has fulfilled in this way.
19 Repent, therefore, and turn, so that your sins may be blotted out,
20 so that there may come periods of refreshing from the presence of the Lord; and that he may send the one who has been appointed for you, Christ Jesus.
21 He is the One heaven must receive until the time of the restoration of all things, about which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
22 Moses indeed said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You will listen to him in everything— whatever he will speak to you.
23 But it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed from among the people.’
24 Indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after him, as many as have spoken have also announced these days.
25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’
26 After God raised up his servant, he sent him to you first, blessing you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
The Acts of the Apostles